This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..

Friday, September 23, 2011

Premonition 13- 13 (Volcoment 02898-2)

Wino has yet
another new band called Premonition 13. This is the bands first full length
record after the debut 7” that came out earlier this year. Wino plays all the
guitars and sings on the records, while live the band has two guitar players in
order to play these songs. Beauty starts side A with some really nice spacey,
and even backwards guitar layers before the vocals kick in. This is a very cool
spacey song. Hard to Say is a hard rocking song that sounds more like some of
his other bands but I like the dual layers of psychedelic guitars on this one.
Great track but short. Clay Pigeons has a riff like Spirit Caravan era material
and features a ripping wah solo. Senses is a slower short track. Side B starts off with the La Hechicera de al
Jeringa prelude, which is quite spacey and then the real song of the same title
kicks in and starts with a nice guitar solo with a bit of delay on it. This is
a long, slow, emotional and heavy track. The end section has some spaced out
guitar barried underneath the slow doomy riif. Deranged Rock n’ Roller is a mid
paced rocker with some dirty, gritty guitar and occasional slide guitar. Great
guitar on this track. Modern Man starts with a pretty guitar and then the
monster guitar riff kicks in. This is one of those catchy tracks with a sung
chorus. Sounds like it was written about the time he did is Adrift record.
Peyote Road ends this damn cool record and has a lot of nice melodic guitars
and I like the double tracking section. Cool and different song. All those
people who were describing this record as influenced by King Crimson and
progressive rock are way off the mark, this is solid WINO just a bit more
spacey, melodic, more time changes and not so angry but pure WINO..

About Me

I am a research scientist doing Diabetes research and I do music journalism on the side and have been writing about music for 28 years now. I also lead an all improvised psychedelic space rock band called the Øresund Space Collective. I also am an avid collector of music.